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GemmaJF Admin Group Joined: 25 Jan 2003 No. of posts: 2090  View other posts by GemmaJF |
Posted: 29 Dec 2005 OK, so it is off-topic but whilst our herps are quietly tucked away some of us may want to give this some thought/discussion:
Countdown to extinction?
If you have an email list perhaps you can pass the message on? Gemma Fairchild, Independent Ecological Consultant |
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Suzi Senior Member Joined: 06 Apr 2005 No. of posts: 860  View other posts by Suzi |
Posted: 29 Dec 2005 Gemma, I have been following the badger/TB problem for some time and guessed that killing would win eventually. Badgers are in my garden most nights and many dozen live within the town here in East Devon. How do they propose getting rid of these urban ones? We are in a very dense badger population area here in the south west and it will be difficult I should imagine to "empty" an area without others moving in to fill the void created. I think the government have already made their mind up to go ahead so this is just flannel. Suz |
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Alan Hyde Senior Member Joined: 17 Apr 2003 No. of posts: 1416 View other posts by Alan Hyde |
Posted: 20 Jan 2006 Gemma, thanks for this info I wasn't aware that this was going on. I did sign myself and forward to all the people that I know O-> O+> |
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Mick Member Joined: 10 Jun 2005 No. of posts: 184 View other posts by Mick |
Posted: 20 Jan 2006 As far as i'm concerned, after all these years, the government are yet STILL piddling in the wind with this one!  I just wont buy it until we all see absolute, clear, conclusive proof that poor Badgers are the cause. |
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arvensis Senior Member Joined: 15 Mar 2006 No. of posts: 445 View other posts by arvensis |
Posted: 16 Mar 2006 Don't the Badgers get Bovine TB of the cattle in the first place then spread it as they move about? Mark Hampshire Amphibian and Reptile Group. |
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Wolfgang Wuster Senior Member Joined: 23 Apr 2003 No. of posts: 326 View other posts by Wolfgang Wuster |
Posted: 16 Mar 2006 Now, now - use your common sense - surely it is obvious that the guilty party for spreading bovine TB can only be the badgers, which can move several miles in a night. Couldn't possibly have anything to do with farmers trucking animals from one end of the country to the other on a daily basis (in between complaining about fuel prices, natch), could it now? Perhaps we should blame badgers for foot-and-mouth as well, while we are at it... Cheers, Wolfgang Wolfgang Wüster School of Biological Sciences, University of Wales, Bangor http://sbsweb.bangor.ac.uk/~bss166/ |
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Morpheus Senior Member Joined: 30 Apr 2006 No. of posts: 54  View other posts by Morpheus |
Posted: 09 May 2006 Wouldnt removing badgers from the wild mess up the food chain or something i dont know much about them but something bad would probably come from this Gloucestershire`s first exotic pet show! http://www.reptileforums.co.uk/general-herp-chat/320967-glou cestershire-reptile-show-2010-a.html |
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